Scope and Contents: Register lists bonds registered with the Governor by subscribers to the $1.6 million canal construction loan authorized by the General Assembly in 1843. The bonds were sold by agents in Illinois, New York, and London and, by statute, had to be registered with the Trustees of the Illinois and Michigan Canal within one year after the trust was established. Those individuals who purchased bonds after the trust was established were required to register them within one year after the subscription date. Register entries include date of registration, name of subscriber, serial number of bond, date of issue, face value of bond, name of state official who signed the bond, person to whom interest and principal payments were to be made, amount of money subscribed by bondholder, and name of agent to whom subscription payments were made. Volume II also includes information on dates when interest began to accrue; lost bonds; amount of canal scrip issued and still outstanding; face values of bonds registered in Illinois, New York, and London; total face value of bonds issued; and arrears of interest accruing on canal scrip and interest certificates.